All Ireland Final tickets thread (Buying/selling/swapping etc.) Mod note post #1

scatman carruthers wrote: »

how do those junkies touts get their hands on them who are at the corner of the big tree every year

Local clubs? Residents?

advice needed

is it worth travelling up from Waterford on the match day to try and get tickets outside

would it be hard to get tickets in time for the minor final (the sole purpose ill be going to Dublin on the day)

Zardoz wrote: »

Have the hurling final tickets been sent out to the clubs yet ?

Yes they have in Clare anyway

markel wrote: »

Does anyone know do football clubs in non competing counties get a hurling allocation or do they have to be a hurling club?

Every club gets an allocation. We are hurling only but always get football tickets.

It's interesting to look at the season ticket numbers. For both sets of fans and some neutrals the numbers are 1,900, 1,400 and then 900. This seems an awfully low number. Wikipedia claims Leinster Rugby has 12,500 for comparison. It is maybe something the GAA could look at. They are clearly good value for the diehard fan but that's clearly all who's buying them at the moment. I wonder would they get more of an uptake by basing them around the championship rather than league and championship combined. Whilst it would be great to see more people at the league there's been a huge fall off in interest for early round championship games. This might help address that. There's a sizeable cohort around the country who have a strong interest but who aren't going to nearly as many matches as they used to.

At present the league is a very mixed bag in terms of what you get. This year for the Waterford hurlers you would have seen a great series of matches. The year before only 1 of the 5 matches had both teams actually going for it. I'm not talking about young players being blooded or full championship pace, I mean one team had taken a conscious decision in their preparations not to compete properly with a longer term plan in mind. Which is fair enough but makes for a very poor spectacle. As it can only take 3 games for a team to reach the final then this means only 50% of matches weren't a write off. The cut-off for an All Ireland ticket is 60% attendance.

I'm not trying to suggest I have a divine right to a ticket myself by the way. I'm just wondering how much of a success the season ticket scheme is. It's a reward for those who would be at the matches anyway but I wonder could the GAA use them to drive attendances for those in between the diehards and the big day out crowd.

scatman carruthers wrote: »

must be residents so,every single event iv ever went to at croke park they have always been there touting

They also have lads wandering around posing as genuine fans buying tickets that people have spare.

Limestone1 wrote: »

They also have lads wandering around posing as genuine fans buying tickets that people have spare.

It's always the same gougers that can be seen around Croke Park, Aviva, Slane etc. They do send out people posing as genuine fans as I observed when I was waiting to meet someone outside Quinns pub before an All Ireland final and a woman was going around asking people for tickets and didn't look or sound like a gouger. As soon as she got some, I saw her going straight across the road to a gouger standing by the barricades on Clonliffe Road selling them and gave them straight to him and returned looking for more.

mc_hammered wrote: »

where is all the bleedin tickets. sigh. looks like mc will be watching this in the pub, still over a week to sort it i suppose.

if one was to rely on getting ticket on match day. i have heard some people say its easy and your 100% to buy one at normal prices then others say it wont be so easy and chances will be rare. i take it truth is somewhere in the middle?

as of last tuesday night clare county board had 9000 tickets to give to clubs from the gaa itself which is roughly 1/3 of the demand in the county more tickets will be sent down here next monday or so i hear,

however the slow process this year has been caused i think by the number of people looking to swap hurling for football tickets and as far as i know the football tickets wont go on sale until mid next week

i imagine come thursday/friday/saterday of next week tickets will become alot more plentyfull when they get sent back to the two counties that want them!!

Looking for 2 tickets for the all Ireland football final. After attending every match this year with our 6 and a half year old but I really think we would be lucky to get 2 tickets never mind 3. Kicking myself I didn't join the cairde maigh Eo tickets as I was afraid some of the kids might be sick but thankfully we had a great summer. really don't want to have to pay a some random person a few hundred euros again after last year.

I have 2 premium tickets for the football final and want to swap them for 2 central premium tickets for the hurling if anyone is interested. Swaps only please - not interested in selling them.

kippy wrote: »

Nice name for a die hard Mayo fan! [/

Thanks nothing will beat beating Galway in salt hill this year completely epic.

Even the fact that I didn't get clamped this year was a bonus "I love Galway " lol the city that gave me my 3 rd level education but in my first few weeks in Galway in 1998 I watched them bring Sam to eyre square and oh boy it hurt.

Just asking for my dad, when do tickets go on sale for the All Ireland football final?

The first post of this thread, about halfway down.

The short of it is they don't go on general sale anywhere.

Football final tickets are out already - I have my 2 premium tickets and do this swap every year. So not sure who's the muppet.